January 24, 2025

Kim Campbell, the first female prime minister of Canada, was right when she said a 47-day-long election campaign (Imagine a campaign of only 47 days!) was not enough time to reconsider the nation’s social programs. But she was wrong to say so.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

There never was any government so purely popular, as not to require the exclusion of the poor